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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 1. 1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. gjl
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Uncle Sam's Big Fortune Wheels
Begin to Revolve at El Reno.
FIRST DAY ONE OF EXCITEMENT
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Thousands of Home Seekers Watch <
the Proceedings With Deep Interest,
Hoping to Be the
Lucky Ones.
Oklahoma's great land lottery was j
begun at El Reno in earnest Monday,
and when the commissioners appoint- ]
ed by the. federal government adjourn- 1
ed the drawing for the day 1,000 of the <
choicest of the 13,000 160-acre claims 1
m tne Kiowa-uomanche country had
been awarded.
The first name drawn from the
wheels was that of Stephen A. Hoicomb,
of Paul's Valley, I. T., for a
homestead in the El Reno district, and
the second Leonard Lamb, of Augusta.
O. T. These two men selected the
two choicest claims in this district
The capital prize winners, however,
proved to be James R. Wood, of
Weatherford, O. T., whose name was
the first to come from the Lawton district
wheel, and Miss Mattie H. Bea!s:
of Wichita, Kans., who drew the second
number in that district.
They will have the privilege of making
the first filings in the Lawton district.
and will undoubtedly choose the
two quarter sections adjoining that
town. These are considered the most
valuable in the territory and are, it
was estimated, worth from $20,000 to
$40,000 each.
The day was one of keen excitement,
replete with interesting scenes. It is
estimated that fully 25.000 persons
witnessed the drawing. The immense
throng was wrought up to the highest
pitch. The drawing of the first names
was followed by a mighty shout that
reverberated between the hills and *
must have been heard for miles over 4
the prairies. Each succeeding winner
for
a time was met with shouts of ap- i
plause and merriment. All was pleas t
antry. Every man, though he did not
draw a prize from the wheels, had t
steadfast faith that the next day would i
surely see him the possessor of a slip
reading him a title clear to 160 acres ?
> : - of Oklahoma's land.
Hundreds Repeated. s
It has been found that many hundred s
applicants have "repeated" and that
other applications are so illegible
that they will be thrown out. Over ^
this much discord has resulted, and t
the outcome may be an appeal to the ^
courts. w
The drawing had been set for i
o'clock, but the transferring of the E
bundles of envelopes holding the ap- v
plications from the general receptacle e
into the wheels, which was by lot, was
so slow that it was 10:50 o'clock before c
the first name was drawn. d
Must Get Married. a
When 25 names had been taken from
the El Reno district wheel, attention a
was turned to that representing the p
Lawton district. C
The first name brought out for this
aisinci was mat 01 jonn n. vvoous.
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of Weatherford, Okla., and the crowd
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again went wild. This meant that ^
Woods would be able to claim the sec'tion
adjoining Lawton town, one of
the choicest in the entire country.
The second ticket was drawn and
? *,- Colonel Dyer cried out: 3
"I have the pleasure tft announce the
name of the first waSn to draw a
prize, Mattie H. Beals, of Wichita, d
Kans." P
Then Colonel Dyer gave her descrip
tion as 23 years old and 5 feet 3 inches c
in height, just the height of Woods, a
Instantly the crowd caught the humor a
of the situation and thousands of
throats sent up the shout: tl
"They must get married!" c
The eighth winner in the Lawton a
. district was Minerva McClintock, aged
25 years, of Oklahoma City. She was c
married Sunday and by this act for- c
felted her right to file for claim. She
might have chosen a claim near a
county seat town worth several thou
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sand dollars. The drawing was resum- ?
ed Tuesday at 9 o'clock. k
A Washington special says: The department
of justice received a tele d
gram stating that Judge Erwin, of the
United States court in Oklahoma, had ?
f denied the application of Lone Wolf v
and other Indians for an injunction re- e
straining the government from distributing
land in that territory by draw- \
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ALLIANCE ORGAN SOLD. p
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Progressive Farmer, Published at Ra ^
leigh, N. C., Changes Hands.
The Progressive Farmer, published
at Raleigh, the organ of the North Car- V
olina State Farmers' Alliance, estab- j1
lished by L. L. Polk, was sold Monday 1
to J. W, Denmark, Polk's son in law,
for $6,000. Denmark now and for some c
time has been business manager. ^
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Alabama Young Man Committed Per- n
jury In Securing License.
J. P. Bernard, a well known planter f
of Mount Zion. Ala., was arrested* Mon
day night on a charge of perjury. Ber- g
nard is 36 years old*. Saturday he visited
Huntsville with Florence Ham n
aker, a girl who is only 15 years of a
age and married her, making affidavit a
that the girl was over 18 years of age. p
SAMPSON INDISPOSED.
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Adn^ral Slightly III and Has Nothing
to Say of Investigation.
An attack of illness prevented Rear ^
Admiral W. T. Sampson from attend, t
ing to his duties at the Charleston
navy yard Thursday. It was said that
the trouble was not of a serious na- j
ture. It was said at the navy yard that
yielding to the advice of friends, Admiral
Sampson will have nothing to
say about the Schley matter until the ^
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J Summary of the Most *
+ Important Daily J
?E Happenings Tersely Told. ?
?It has been learned that the Rus
sian government expelled George Kennan
because of his description of Si'
berian horrors fifteen years ago.
?An electoral law has been reported
to the Cuban constitutional convcn
tion. It provides for universal suffrage.
?Advices from Pekin received at
Washington state that China wll be
?iven three years in which to make the
first indemnity payment.
?Judge John C. Hart, of the supe*
rior court at Dublin, Ga., has ruled
that the farmers are liable for taxes
Dn fertilizers in hand at the date for
giving in taxes.
?Judge Niles' decision gives foreign
oan and building associations in Mississippi
new KVe and the courts will
low be burdened wth suits.
?President Henry, of the Southern
ailwav machinists at Knoxville, declares
no more conferences with the<
ailway officials looking to a compromise
will be held.
?Rev. Mr. Brockhuisen, speaking in
Chicago, says the conditions in Engaud's
Weyler camps are appalling
3oers are dying at an awful rate.
?Agents of the Colombiarf^governnent
took Abel Murillo off a steamer
it Cartegena, although he had the
Jeiman flag about his body.
?Rain continues to tall in the corn
ielt. It is believed that the damage,
lone by drought is not so great as has
>een reported.
?The drawing tor tne government
ands?began Monday at. El Reno and
vill continue until the 13,000 homesteads
have been won.
?The Paterson anarchists held a
neeting Monday night in memory of
Sresci, who killed King Humbert.
?Secretary Long has issued an orler
forbidding naval officers to discuss
he Schley case.
?Whitecappers who went to whip a
legro in Arkansas were filed upon by
heir intended victim and two killed.
?In the socialist democratic ccnven
ion at Indianapolis the faction friendy
to Debs is in a minority.
?Shaffer and Williams, strike lead;rs,
have been in New York in conference
with Morgan and Schwab, of the
teel trust. It is believed they will
ettle the strike.
?War Correspondent Graham, who
vas on the Brooklyn during the Saniago
battle, scathingly arraigns tho
:lique which has hounded Admiral
Jchley.
?The battleship Maine, which commemorates
the shapeless mass in Haana
harbor, was successfully launchd
at Philadelphia Saturday.
?Heavy rains nave fallen throughiut
the parched west, breaking the
Irought which has lasted nearly two
aonths.
?The state department has received
dvices confirming the press dis atches
of the final settlement of the
Jhinese problem.
?The Alabama constitutional con
ention tor the first time found itself
rithout a quorum upon opening Saturay,
but the requisite number was
unted up and the debate on the sufrage
question proceeded.
?Judge of the federal court in Misissippi
renders a decision touching
sans by building associations which
i a contradicton of a decision handed
own by the chief justice of the sureme
court of Mississippi.
?The proposed new tariff law is
ausing comment in Germany. It is
dmitted that certain provisions are
imed at the United States.
?Captain Schley, of the Twentybird
infantry, son of the admiral,
omes out in defense of his father and
dvises him to spare no one.
?Midway people at the Pan-Amerian
exposition maue another unsucessful
attempt to give performances
n Sunday.
?The transport Meacie arrived at
ian Francisco Sunday from Manila,
ringing the Eigth battery, field arillery
and many sick and Insane soliers.
?Ambassador Choate has gone to
[olland. and rumor has it that Kruger
rants him to act as mediator in the
ffort to secure peace.
?A movement is on foot in New
'ork to seek the redemption of the
outh's repudiated bonds.
?Just back from Liberia, a Georgian
aints the picture of southern negroes
n the trip over and declares they were
adly treated.
?The steel trust has ordered the
'elders in the National Tube Compay's
works, at McKcesport, Pa., to sign
^dividual contracts or get out
?Lord Kitchener's official report
onfirms the rumors that British
rounded were shot by Boers.
?The drought over the corn belt
as at last been broken. The rains
ame too late to save corn, but will furish
pasturage.
?The Fosburgh murder trial at
>ittsfield, Mass.. resulted in the acquital
of the defendant. The verdict was
reeted with applause.
?The official draft ot the new Gertorift'
chnw5 heavv increaso
uail lUi AM.*. W..V ?
gainst American products. In Berlin
, tariff war with the United States is
iredicted.
?The battleship Maine was launched
at the Cramps shipyards at Phila[elp..?a
Saturday morning.
?Several earthquake shocks were
ixperienced throughout Utah and Ne'ada
Friday. Heavy rains followed
he shocks.
?George Kennan. the famous traveler
and lecturer, has been ordered to
eave Russia as an undesirable foreigner.
?Several non-commissioned officers
efuse to accept medals from King Edvard.
claiming that their pay has beet
tfithneld.
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Another Military Regiment.
A special from Columbia says that
military authorities are advocating
forming another regiment of militia in
the lower part of the state, taking ii\
the independent battalion of four com*
panics in Charleston.
* Rails
Have Been Ordered.
The Greenville Electric Company
has ordered rails for 35 miles of track
and will soon begin laying track to
Piedmont. The track will be extended
to Pclzer and probably to Williamston.
The next move will be a track to Paris
Mountain.
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Sheriff Demands Reward.
James Lindsay killed a man in York
county last May. He escapeu to North
Carolina and was captured a couple
of weeks ago by a North Carolina sheriff.
Sheriff Logan, of York, sent his
deputy, but the sheriff of Newton refused
to give up the prisoner without
a reward. None had been offered. The
North Carolina sheriff said he would
turn the man loose unless one was
paid. Sheriff Logan then went prepared
to make trouble and got his man.
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Commission Is Withheld.
There is a peculiar situation in
Bamberg county. J. Dickinson, the
hold-over county treasurer, has been
re-elccted and is awaiting his commission.
In the meanwhile the auditing
clerk of the comptroller general's
department finds that Dickinson is <
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over. A settfei^ent cannot be obtain- ]
ed, and the governor has announced
his intention of requesting the delegation
from that county to recommend
another man for appointment.
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Young Man Exiled.
A Columbia news item states that A.
H. Wilkes, a young white man of good
family, but of black sheep order, has
been banished from the state for twen
ty years. This was the condition of a
pardon for selling whisky. The young
fellow has been in a number of
scrapes and was finally sentenced to
the chaingang. He is a physical
wreck. It is thought that he may reform
and his family will doubtless give
him the opportunity to make a start <
elsewhere. ]
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Served Church Fifty Years.
At Fair Forest Presbyterian church
on a recent Sunday, from the counties,
of Union, Spartanburg and Greenville;
there was a large gathering to commemorate
the half century of the con- 1
tinuous pastorate of Rev. A. A. James. '
Rev. B. F. Wilson, president of Converse
college, preached in the morn- '
ing. After dinner Mr. James delivered
an address covering many points of in- ^
terest to the community.
The Fair Forest church was organ- !
ized in 1751, in a log house. In 1819 ^
the present church was built. Besides
Mrs. James there were seven persons 1
who were present when Mr. James
preached his first sermon in the church 1
in 1851.
Lengthy Electric Roads.
South Carolinans are going in for
long electric railways. Recently the
building of a line from Aiken to Augusta
whs begun, and now the secretary
of state has chartered the Green 1
ville-Piedmont Traction Company, with 1
a minimum capital of $100,000, that 1
may be increased to $250,000. This
company will construct a line from <
Greenville to Piedmont, a distance of (
twelve miles. Pennsylvania capital- 1
ists are interested. A plan is on foot *
to extend the Buffalo road, running 5
from Union, about eight miles, to Buf- (
falo mills, via White Rock, connecting
at White Rock with an extension of
the Spartanburg electric line, giving
an electric road between Union and <
Spartanburg.
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Governor Not -Pleased. 1
Governor McSweenev seemed disap- '
pointed when he heard of the action of I
Mayor Smyth, of Charleston, in calling '
off policemen detailed to raid dispen- <
sarles.
"I do not think," he said, "that it 3
will help Charleston. It has been my
hope since I have been in office to see
the dispensary law enforced in every
place where there is a police force,
and I would have withdrawn the constabulary
if I could have received a
guaranty from the municipal authorities
that the law would be enforced. I !
have positive information that Flor
ence. Anderson. Abbeville. Greenwood,
Spartanburg and other places are doing
what Charleston should do?assist- '
ing the constabulary in every way
possible. I have the positive statement
of the mayor of Columbia that '
he will at any time direct the police
to assist the state constables in making
raids and breaking up the illicit
sales. The dispensary constables have
recently taken an additional oath that
requires them to enforce all laws ol
the state. Their first act under the ex
tended powers was to catch a batch of
negro gamblers in Greenville."
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Policeman's Bloody Deed.
Thomas Murray, a policeman who
guards the town of Cheraw at night,
some time ago married the daughter
of A. A. McDonald, an old respected
citizen. Subsequently he became furiously
jealous regarding a love affair
k /->i * mo??**ioorci onrl
UI Ills Wilt unuit: UlCU uau lagc, an\t
in a quarrel threw her out of the
house. The young woman returned tc
her father. Murray, relenting, went
for her. but stated to her father that
as a condition to her returning as his
wife he would give her a whipping. Old
McDonald went for his gun. but his
aged wife dissuaded him from using it
Murray's wife fled to the woods. Murray
drove her parents out of the house,
took possession and smashed things
in general. Then in going out he shot
his father in law dead. He escaped.
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McLaurin Remains Silent.
Since the action of the democratic
executive committee. Senator McLaurin
has been asked by representatives
of newspapers for an expression of his
views. Senator McLaurin and family
left Bennettsville for Greenville on account
of the number of cases of typhoid
fever in that town. One of his
daughters was sick before leaving Ben
nettsville, and since arriving at Greenville
the sickness has developed into
typhoid fever. Mrs. McLaurin and the
sick child are at the home of Mrs. A.
J. S. Thomas, a relative of Mrs. McLaurin's,
while Mr. McLaurin and his
other child are on Paris mountain. The
Senator returns to the city every day
to be with his wife and sick child. His
whole time and thoughts are given to
his doiip-htpr and hp iznores all DOliti
cal matters, declining to discuss current
political conditions even with hia
most intimate friends.
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To Extend Blue Ridge Road.
Fairfax Harrison, of Washington, D.
C., and B. L. Abney, of Columbia, who
recently bought the Blue Ridge railway,
the line which John C. Calhoun
placed to cross the mountains, will
a* y' for a charter from the secretary
i \Vate and will extend the road
Oss the Blue Ridge mountains to-rd
the Georgia line, going by way
Rabun Gap. Beyond Walhalla, the
.resent terminus, the road has been
surveyed through the mountains and
tunnels have already been cut through
solid rock. The buiiding of this overland
road would give a quick trip from
the south Atlantic coast, and would
mako the route a great deal shorter.
It was generally supposed that the
Blue Ridge was bought by the Southern
railway, but this has-been denied,
and the application for a charter willmean
that the mountains will eventually
be crossed.
SAMPSON EXPRESSES PLEASURE.
Says Investigation Will Show That
Whole Business Is Inspired by Malice
Rear Admiral Sampson, who is at
Boston, said Wednesday:
"I am glad that Rear Admiral Schley
has asked secretary lxmg tor an investigation.
I hope if there is an invest!
gation it will be a thorough one and
that not a d-etail of anything that has
been in dispute will be avoided by the
investigating board.
"This whole business is inspired by
malice, but now, perhaps, it may all
be investigated, and if it is, the people
of the United States will know all the
facts."
BITTER PILL FOR BOERS.
Prisoners In St. Helena Fight Over
Matter of Taking Oath of Allegiance.
Bad blood among the Boer prisoiftis
in St. Helena over the question of taking
the oath of allegiance to King Edward
has led to so much fighting and
disorder that it has been necessary to
remove those who have taken the oath
to a separate inclosure.
There were several severe encounters,
and the vigilance committee of
the irreconciliables subjected those
who had taken the oath to indescribable
indignities.
The ringleaders have been impris>ned
in the fortress.
WAR ON NEGRO SOCIETIES.
Many Mississippi State Newspapers
Advise Breaking Them Up.
A spptinn nf thp Missis;.
sippi state press has opened a war on
the negro societies with the view of
iccomplishing their extermination.
The fight was precipitated by the re?ent
troubles at Cleveland, in Boliva.
:ounty, where several negroes were
\illed as the result of the assassina:ion
of a white man. the local negro
ociety, it is said, having been the
>riginal cause of the assassination.
CAMPS ARE CROWDED.
Dver 100,000 Are Penned Up At Concentration
Posts in South Africa.
A parliamentary paper issued at
London Wednesday gives numbers of
[>ersons in the concentration camps in
South Africa in Juneas follows: White,
$5,410; colored, 23,489. There were
f77 deaths among the whites in the
:amps, the list including 576 children,
rhe deaths among the colored persons
aumbered five.
Costly Blaze In Davenport.
At Davenport, la., Thursday fire laid
svaste an area of saw mill and resilence
property equal to twenty ordinary
city blocks. Losses will aggregate
$700,000.
Tariff Wall Tumbles.
The President Thursday issued his
proclamation establishing free trade
between Porto Rico and the United
States and declaring the organiation
Df a civil government for the island.
DIED TO SAVE OTHERS.
Two Heroes Perish in Burning Building
at Louisville, Ky.
In a fire at Louisville, Ky., Saturday
morning which destroyed the property
of the Badgley-Graham and Photographic
Supply Company, Max Belovitch,
a cigarmaker. and Policeman
James Purden were burned to death in
an effort to rescue women and children
who occupied rooms above the supply
store.
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He Recovers Sufficiently to Undertake
Trip to New York.
General Wood, governor general of
Cuba, sailed from Havana Saturday on
board the steamer Morro Castle for
New York. He expressed himself as
being quite well and wanted to walk
aboard the vessel, but his friends insisted
on his being carried on board
on a portable cot Deep sympathy with
General Wood was shown by Cubans
of all clasees on his departure.
SECRET CONFERENCE
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Of Steel Magnates and Strike
Leaders Held In New York.
DIFFERENCES FULLY DISCUSSED
Procee^^^s Are Not Made Public.
Opinion Prevails That Trouble
Will Soon Be Satisfactorily
Adjusted.
The formal negotiations for a settlement
of the great steel strike were
opened in New York Saturday at a
conference between President snaner
and Secretary Williams, of the Amalgamated
association, and J. Plerpont
Morgan and a group of his associates,
of the United States Steel Corporation.
The conference and the movements
of the conferees were secret, and no
intimation of the result of the deliberations
has come from any one in authority
It is believed, however, that substantial
progress toward an agreement
was made and that formal announcement
of the compact for peace will
come within a few days.
There has been much speculation
as to the terms of peace, but much of
it has been pure conjecture. It was
said that the strike would be called
off and that there would be a resumption
cf the negotiations of general labor
questions at the point where they
were broken off at the Pittsburg conference.
In financial circles, however,
the opinion was general that the prospective
agreement would go further
than that and in itself dispose of serious
questions at issue.
The conference resulted from several
days of preliminary discussion,
all of which was kept secret. A representative
of the Amalgamated association
was in the city on^Erida'y
was given a lengthy interview by an
official of one of the companies forming
the United States Steel Corporation.
The conference of Saturday is
believed to have been practically ar
ranged at that time: Shaner ana Williams
slipped quietly out of Pittsburg
and were in New York several hours
before a hint of their presence reached
the public. Mr. Morgan and President
Schwab, of the United States
Steel Corporation, met first at the office
of the former and were closeted
for some time. The meeting with the
labor leaders followed. The names of
those who participated in the meeting,
aside from the leaders on either
side and the place at which the com
ferees met were kept from ine public.
Mr. Morgan was seen after the meeting,
but would say nothing beyond de*
nying that he had any appointment
with President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated
association. President Schwab,
of the United States Steel Corporation,
also was seen, but as he declined to
make any statement whatever, he
would neither admit nor deny that
there had been a conference.
It is said that the basis of the settlement
of the steel strike is a compromise,
concessions being made by both
sides.
RUSSIA ACCEPTS PROPOSAL.
Czar's Action Puts An End to Trou*
. bles in Chinese Empire.
Russia has accepted on trial the
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ing the method of payment of the Chinese
indemnity, so that at the next
meeting of the representatives of the
powers at Pekin, a perfect agreement
can be reached, says the St. Petersburg
correspondent of The New York
Herald.
This is the most important piece of
news since the commencement of the
troubles, because it means that a settlement
has been reached, enabling
and, indeed, compelling, the powers
immediately to withdraw their troops
in keeping with their promises, thus
removing the chief obstacle to the return
of the Chinese court to the capital.
Advice From Negro Ministers.
Negro ministers at Birmingham,
Ala., have issued circulars advising
members of their race against going
north and east to take the places of
striking workmen.
REVERSES HIGH COURT.
Federal Judge In Mississippi Decides
Contrary to State Supreme Tribunal.
Judge Niles, of the federal court at
Jackson, Miss., Saturday handed down
a decision involving $200,00U of building
and loan contracts in Mississippi.
He reverses the state supreme court
and holds that contracts with the New
South Building and Loan Association
of New Orleans are not usurious. The
decision effects seventy other suits.
The state supreme court heid that
contracts of this company were usurious
and absolved the borrowers from
paying any more.
ARE READY FOR BATTLE.
Opposing Factions In Arkansas County
Threaten to Spill Blood.
A special from Little Rock, Ark.,
says: Osceola, the county seat of
Mississippi county, is under an armed
incm-ro^tinn an account of Governor
Davis having revoked the commissions
of Sheriff Sam Brown and Circuit
Clerk C. S. Driver, and appointed J. A.
Lovewell and J. \V. Rhodes, respectively,
as their successors.
An Incentive to Live.
Mrs. Hazel Silvis Wood, a young
widow, who attempted suicide last
week because she owed a small debt
proves to be an heiress to an estate in
Nebraska valued at $7,500, left to her
father, who died last November in Tallahassee,
Fla.
Negroes Get High Grades.
Complaints are being made over
the state of Tennessee because of the
high grades given negro school teachers
at the institutes and the wholesale
granting of certificates.
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HEAVY THRUSTS AT SAMPSON.
War Correspondent Graham Roasts
Admiral and Naval Clique Which
Hoped to Ruin Schley.
War Correspondent George Edward
Graham, who represented the Associated
Press on board the Brooklyn and
stood beside Admiral Schley, replies
to the criticisms made by Maclay. He
saj o.
"Maclay was cither induced or ordered
to assault Schley so fiercely that
the latter would ask for a court of inquiry.
Then the Sampson-Evans-Crowninshield-Chadwick
crowd hoped to get
such a board appointed as would make J
it apparent that Sampson, of 12-milesaway
fame, was responsible for the defeat
of Cervera, although he ran away
on the day that there was any indication
of trouble. Maclay gives away tne
whole scheme when he says that Admiral
Schley should ask tor a court of
inquiry.
"It would seem as if there should be
settled first the question of veracity
raised by Maclay and the navy department.
Maclay is quoted as saying that
the department saw his proof sheets
and approved them. The department
says that is not true. Would Maclay
mind telling if Chadwick did not revise
them??Chadwick, who only saw
the battle from a distance of 12 miles.
Chadwick, who has surreptitiously furnished
the press antagonistic to Schley
w.-i material; or perhaps Evans, the
only man who got in a conning tower
and hid during the fight, might have
seen them. Anyway, Clark, of the glorious
Brooklyn, or Philip, of the Texas,
all of whom were up to their necks
in the fight, didn't revise them or as- J
sist in writing tnem.
"If they are going to courtmartial
somebody, why don't they get Sampson
to say why he ran away the only
morning when there was an indication
of a fight? Why don't they ask him
why he did not coal at sea off Santiago,
but depleted his battle line daily
by sending "ship's^"5$-miles away to
c^>al? Ask him why ue leftj:he battle
line with the fast cruiser NFfc^Y.ork
to chase schooners so that he could
get prize money. Ask him why he never
said a word or signaled a word of
praise to officers or men after the fight, I
although Schley asked him to do so. j
These are things worth courtmartial-1
ing any man for."
THE MAINE IS REMEMBERED, j
Launching of Namesake ef Unfortunate
Battleship Draws Tremendous
Crowd to Witness Event.
The battleship Maine, designed to
' ^ + o n rl focfor fhfln
ue UJ&&C1, OU vugu uuu 1UUI.V1 vuuu
her namesake, whose shapeless mass
still lies in the harbor of Havana, was
successfully launched from the yards
of the William Cramps Snip and Engine
Building Company at Philadelphia
Saturday.
One of the largest crowds that has
ever seen a warship take the waves at
Cramps yards was on hand and patriotism
ran wild as the ship left her
cradle.
After the yard was thrown open to
the public every vantage point in the
confines of the place swarmed with hu-.
inanity. The weather was beautiful.
The presence of the immense crowd
was largely due to the fact that the
new ship bears the name of the illfated
Maine.
The state of Maine was officially represented
by Governor Hill and members
of his staff. Washington was represented
by Rear Admirals Bradford,
Melville and Walker, Lieutenant Commander
Bailey, Captain Leary, former
governor of Guam, and a number of
bureau chiefs of the navy department.
President McKinley, Secretary of
the Navy Long, Admiral Dewey, Captain
Sigsbee and other naval dignitaries
who received invitations, were unable
to attend.
The ceremony or christening the
ship was performed by Miss Mary Pre_
ble Anderson, of Portland. Me., a descendant
of the Preble family that
added fame to the naval honors of the
country.
As the vessel slid off the ways a
great shout went up and every steam
craft in the vicinity began the tooting
of whistles.
LENIENCY EXTENDED CHINA.
Three Years of Grace Given to Mako
First Payment on Indemnity.
Dispatches received at Washington
by cable from Mr. Rockhill, the United
States special commissioner at Pekin,
set out some of the details of the financial
arrangement respecting the indemnity
not heretofore disclosed. He reports
that the interest on the indem
nity began to run on the 1st of July o'
this year and the payments will be<-1
no comi.dnnnallv the firet tr? ho
^UllIC Ullt OVllii uuuvium; , vuv vw w\
met January 1st next. China will be
allowed three years before making the
first payment on account of the principal
of the indemnity.
"KEEP SILENT," SAYS LONG.
People In Naval Service Are Forbidden
to Discuss Schley-Sampson Affair.
Secretary Long Monday morning issued
the following general order:
"All persons in the naval service are
strictly enjoined to refrain from any
public statement concerning the sub-1
ject matter of the court of inquiry re- I
quested by Rear Admiral W. S. Schley.
"JOR..N D. LONG. Secretary."
TYSON HEIRS TO MEET.
Arrangements Will Be Made For Dis
tribution of Large Fortune.
There will be a meeting held in Fori
Worth. Texas. August 13th of the Tyson
heirs for the purpose of arranging
for the distribution of the vast for
tune left by John Tyson, who died in
Melbourne, Australia, two years ago,
leaving an estate said to be valued at
$52,000,000. about half of which is in
cash In the Bank of England, the balance
being railroad and raining stock
and realty in Melbourne.
V .. r " *
NEW MOVE BY TRUST
icliu Taken Wlicb Will Effectnally
Checkmate Strikers.
WANT INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTS
Employees Must Sign op Lose Their
Jobs?Action Practically
Bars All Union Organizations.
The National Tube Works Company,
at McKeesport, Pa., has made an unexpected
move intended to checkmate
the Amalgamated association. Their
skilled workmen have been asked to
sign individual contracts to practically
repudiate any union organization, and
they have been given but a short time
to think the matter over. It is understood
that should they not sign the
contracts they will find their positions
vacant.
Thursday evening the 600 welders of
the mill were paid off and taken into
the office of the general superintendent,
where tney were presented with
individual contracts to be signed for at
least a year. Some demurred, while
others signed the contracts.
This movement, fighting fire with
fire, carried consternation into the
ranks of the strikers. The welders are
highly skilled workmen, and with their
co-operation the big plant might be
closed down. With them in line the
plant will probably keep on running as
though nothing had happened. It Is intimated
by friends of the welders that
they would all sign the contract
Definite announcement that the officials
of the American Sheet Steel Company
would start the W. DeWees Wood
mill, in McKeesport, a non-union mill,
on Monday, reached the headquarters
of the Amalgamated association early
Friday morning. The movement will
not bi permitted to be made without
a. decided attempt to check it. While
the rank-and file of the strikers are
not acquaint?4-^ith the plans of the
campaign, they now" believe that Important
developments wiuctfaitgg the
aspect of affairs considerably. There
is apparently less of the confidence
that was noted in the first part of the
week, but there was a lot of determination
expressed by those who would
talk.
BILLION MARK EXCEEDED.
Detailed Figures of Our Foreign Com*
^ 1 i. iU. Q.,klt?
mercc vaivcn iu mc rwunv.
A Washington dispatch says: The
detailed figures of the foreign commerce
of the United States in the year
ended June 30, 1901, were completed
by the treasury bureau of statistics
Friday. They show total imports of
$822,673,016; total exports, $1,487,755,557;
exports of domestic products, $1/
460,453,809.
TILLMAN RESPONSIBLE.
Coerced Committee In Passage of Res*
olution Condemning McLaurin.
A Columbia, S. C., special says: Senator
Tillman is unquestionably responsible
for the passage of the resolution
condemning McLaurin. The executive
committee was divided, numbers
being uncertain as to the power of the
committee to call on the'senator for
his resignation. When Tillman took
the floor the waverers came over.
PORTO RICANS JUBILANT. i
Establishment of Free Trade Hailed ;
With Greatest Satisfaction.
The announcement of the declaration
of free trade between Porto Rico
and the United States, which was cabled
to the island oi. Porto Rico Thursday,
was received there with many evidences
of popular approval, according
to a telegram from Secretary Hunt,
which was received Friday by the
state department.
Capitalists Buy Timber Lands.
Agents representing capitalists of
' Williamsport, Pa., have just closed a
deal at Marion. Va., for 17,000 acres of
timber land in Smyth ana Grayson
counties The price paid was $103,000,
Sale of Islands Favored.
The new liberal cabinet of Denmark
favors the sale of the Danish West Indies
to the United States, and the minister
of foreign affairs is familiarizing
himself with the details of the case
with the view to continuing the negotiations
to this end.
Machinists Reject Offer.
The machinists and blacksmiths,
about 200 in all, employed in the shops
of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad
at Richmond, in the eastern section
of Philadelphia, have decided to
reject the company's offer of an advance
of 5 per cent in their wages.
IMPERIALISM STILL PARAMOUNT.
Bryan Reiterates That It Remains
Great Issue Between Parties.
While in Chicago Friday William J.
[ Bryan, who was en route nome aiier a
I long tour of the east and south, said: |
"Imperialism is still the great issue
between the two political parties. The
tariff, to be sure, is an important sub*
ject, but to my mind the disease is a
more serious malady than stomach
ache."
FUSILADE IN COURT ROOM.
Tennessee Lawyers Have Misunderstanding
and Empty Their Guns.
In the chancery court room of the
county court house at Clarksville,
Tenn., Friday four lawyers engaged in
a shooting aflrav, and while fifteen
shots were fired, only three of the
men were woundea. W. M. Daniel,
Jr., and F. G. Gilbert indulged in personalities
and after the trial Gilbert attempted
to strike Daniel with an umbrella
when guns were drawn.
BLACKS FORCED BACK :|
The Threats of a Mob Intimidate ||
Imported Negro Workmen. ||
ARMED MEN AWAITED THE! ;||
Colored Man Is Barred By Whit# :--:M
Workmen In Illinois?Bloody
Tragedy Narrowly
Averted.
General Manager Aertsen, of the La* v^flj
trode Steel and CouplerWorks, at Melrose
Park, 111., gave out a statement
Thursday evening declaring that the
company has abandoned the effort to ValmM
-JtSfS
Urillg LUC LUIUI cu lauuius w - .j?
Park and that they will be sent back
to their homes in Alabama.
All day the 300 colored men sat la
their cars at LaGrange, twenty-eight ,V3|9
miles from Chicago, in fear. A committee
of five citizens of Melrose Parte
called on them during the morning and
used their best endeavors to induce J ?
the men to return to Alabama. Tha/jJ^fc
committee informed the colored men of
the actual state of aftairs at MelrOsa :x'
Park, where 300 armeg men were.^5; q
awaiting the arrival of their train, de-'ytujra
termined that the colored men should
not be allowed to alight in the village. ~
Their statements alarmed the col
ored men more than ever and flnaUy'^jl
five of them stepped off the train and^'-J
made their way into Chicago, where ;s, rjl
they sought an interview with the m
authorities for protection, which they'3
could not give them, as the trouble.*^ ;f
was not within the city limits. AftlHgj ^
the five men had left the train, th*||
fears of those left on the train
creased greatly, and it was with great
difficulty that the train management * vs
kept them from running off in a panic, > V i.
Nearly all of the colored men declared'^^8 ^
that they would not go to Melrose Park *
and that if taken there on the traift*^f %
they would refuse to get off. At 2
o'clock Marshal Rau, of the town of
LaGrange, ordered the train bearing " fi
the colored men to move out of th^fSB >.
villager~it-did so and was placed on $
a sidinfg at SaIF"Creek, -two miles -.3^.
north of LaGrange. In
the meantime attorneys for thal|88B
steel company called upon Sheriff ^
gerstadt and asked that the company j
be given ample protection against the
mob violence which was threatened -^3
They stated positively that the labor
ers would be landed in the shops of .
the company whether the sheriff tornished
any aid or not " *$$
"I have just received a telegram
from Adjutant General Reece, offering./. >.
me the aid of the state militia if I J?
need it" said Sheriff Magerstadt after v
his conference with the attorneys, "but 7i|fT *_
I will not need it. I have sent a half ^
dozen men to Melrose Park simply to
make a report to me on the conditions
there. If they say that a mob of 300 Varmed
men are patrolling the streeta,.:^!
as the officials of the company inform ^9 |
me, I will swear in a number of depu-'J '"3
ties and will preserve the peace
all hazards. However, I am not gofnaggW
to call upon the militia, as the county^|ls'
js capable of preserving the peace
whatever happens." ;f;
Out at Melrose Park the armed cife'sS %
izens remained on watch until assured *the
negroes were not coming, when -M ^
they dispersed. ;
MRS. DAVIS IMKKUVfcU.
Reports of Her Condition Were More ; JgH
Alarming Than True. ^
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the M '
president of the confederacy, who is 3
spending the summer at Portland, Me., 3 ^
and who has been confined to her room '
with a slight nervous disorder, was re- ^
Sas being better Thursday. It z
id her condition is not ctmsld
rious^
Imperial Troopsl!5^?&lw?., j'
According to advices the imperial
troops returning to Pekin plundered 3
sixteen towns south of Pao Ting Pn.
After the troops departed the people >'
took vengeance upon the municipalxrf- .
ficers, mobbing the mandarins and -||\
wrecking their houses.
HARVEY SUIT ABSOLVED.
Judge, In a Sweeping Deoiaion, Helps
Out Brunswick Ex-Treasurer.
At Brunswick, Ga., Thursday Judge
Bishop, of Eastman, acting for Judge ,j|j|
Sparks, disqualified, in Glynn
court, handed down a sweeping decis-; : &
ion in the case against H. H. Harvey, 3s
absolving the former city treasurer
from any connection with the suit
brought by the city against himself
and his bondsman, the Fidelity and
Guaranty Company or Baltimore, ana
dismissing the entire suit as originally
brought, together with amendment#
recently added. - J|9H
KAISER AS MEDIATOR. N
Report That German Emperor Will >1j||
Use Good Offices to Stop Boer War. ISM
In London ii is said that Emperor . ils
William, of Germany, is to assume ^
the role of peacemaker in the Boer
war, having been empowered by Kruger
to act for the Boers; that the kai- |||
ser is willing to take the initiative In
order to popularize his relations with
the German people who disapprove of
his friendship for Great Britain. Ja
GOVERNOR IS POWERLESS.
Has No Authority to Stop Importationof
Negro Workmen.
Governor Yates, of Illinois, was ask' ^
ed by telegraph Wednesday to stop
the threatened importation of 20?
mingham, Ala., negroes into the itate^^H
to take the places of strikers at the aJm
plant of the Latrobe Foundry Com pa- y.
ny, Melrose Park, near Chicago. GovIernor
Yates could see no way under
the law to interfere, and suggested jm
that the sheriff be called upon. 1